5.1- Anthology Text- Bashir and Diana interview

Purpose
1. Diana
  1. Provide clarity
  2. Answer the public's questions
2. Bashir
  1. Facilitate Diana
  2. Support Diana
Tone
1. Determined
2. Explanatory
3. Assertive
Mode
1. Written transcript of recorded TV interview
2. Prepared answers
Audience
1. Very large audience
2. Fans of Diana or the monarchy
3. Conspiracy theorists
4. Fans of Bashir
Annotations
1. First person pronouns
  1. Separation from monarchy
2. 'I want them to have an understanding of people's emotions, people's insecurities, people's distress, and people's hopes and dreams.'
  1. Lexical repetition
    1. Assertive tone
  2. Lexical set of people's inner lives
3. '-the seed is there, and I hope it will grow because knowledge is power.'
  1. Metaphor for natural growth
    1. Determined, hopeful tone
  2. Maxim
    1. Very familiar phrase
    2. Emphatic
4. Length of turn
  1. Diana has longer length of turn
    1. Higher status
  2. Conforms to interview conventions
    1. Bashir leads
    2. 'that's what matters, isn't it?'
      1. Tag question by Diana, subverts conventions
Context
1. Diana was a style icon
  1. Very well-liked
2. Car crash in 1997
3. Still married during interview (for 14 years)
  1. Married in 1981
    1. Diana was 18
    2. Charles was 30

Resource summary

	Created by Grace Fawcitt about 6 years ago